All being effectively, NASA will launch a brand new period of lunar exploration on August 29 when its next-generation Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft carry off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

As a part of the build-up to the extremely anticipated Artemis I mission, the house company is releasing a brand new five-part sequence referred to as Artemis I, Path to the Pad, displaying how the staff behind the bold venture bought it to the place it’s immediately.

The first half is scheduled to stream on NASA’s YouTube channel on Friday, August 12, and you’ll watch the trailer for it beneath:

The Artemis I mission will ship skyward essentially the most highly effective rocket NASA has ever constructed. The SLS will propel a crewless Orion capsule towards the moon, the place it should carry out a flyby earlier than returning to Earth. Orion’s epic journey will cowl 1.3 million miles and take 42 days to finish.

NASA’s mission will mark the primary flight take a look at of each the rocket and the spacecraft. If all goes based on plan, NASA will carry out the identical flight with Artemis II, solely this time with a crew on board.

And ought to that go effectively, house followers will have the ability to settle in for essentially the most thrilling crewed mission because the Apollo program 5 many years in the past as Artemis III heads for the moon to place the primary lady and first particular person of shade on the lunar floor. No particular date has been set for the Artemis III mission, but it surely might happen as early as 2025.

Subsequent missions will endeavor to construct a base for a long-term human presence on the lunar floor, with crews utilizing new applied sciences to discover extra of the moon than ever earlier than. NASA desires to make use of what it learns from its crewed lunar missions for its subsequent massive endeavor: the primary human voyages to Mars.

NASA doesn’t say what time the primary a part of Artemis I, Path to the Pad will premiere, saying solely that it’s going to develop into obtainable on Friday, August 12. So, you should definitely head to its YouTube channel on Friday — or anytime after that — to catch it.

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